DPRK Premier Visits Pyongyang Maternity Hospital

DPRK Premier Choe Yong Rim (2nd R) conducts an inspection of Pyongyang Maternity Hospital (Photo: KCNA)

DPRK state media reported on 30 December (Sunday) that Cabinet Premier Choe Yong Rim visited the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital.  Choe toured patient rooms and the hospital’s service and specialist departments and “encouraged medical workers who are taking deep care of babies.”  After he inspected the hospital, Choe convened a meeting with medical staff and hospital managers.  According to KCNA the meeting “discussed facelifting the maternity hospital which was built under the deep care of Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il” and “different measures were taken to provide ample conditions for hospitalization and treatment as required by the season and improve medical services.”  Choe Yong Rim “underscored the need for officials to pay deep attention to the management of the hospital, bearing deep in mind the noble outlook of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un on the people and posterity.”